Recipes to Take Down the Patriarchy is a full-length color cookbook in the works to chronicling famous recipes new and old, all centered around the stories, biographies and victories of history’s most audacious female feminists.
Follow us at on instagram to see us cook live and get some recipes early!
IT ALL STARTED WITH A DREAM
(But, uh, literally.)
The inspiration to create a feminist cookbook came to Meghan while she was fast asleep one night in the winter of 2018. Upon waking, Meghan couldn’t shake the late-night burst of motivation: write a book that would empower modern feminist women to reclaim their heavily stigmatized love for community, cooking, baking, and culinary creativity.
Writing a cookbook on her own wasn’t a one-woman job, so Meghan shared her vision with two close friends, Kayla and Leighann. Together, the three women created a no-holds-barred project plan to bring the idea of a full-length cookbook to life. Armed with spatulas, an assortment of frying pans and matching FEMINIST aprons, the three women are now embarking on a year-long journey to discover what it means to be a modern millennial working woman proudly bearing the ‘feminist’ label, while also whole-heartedly embracing the dichotomy of womanhood that has been rejected or stigmatized as “lesser than”: an unapologetically badass female advocate who also loves to clock long hours crafting delicious dishes in the kitchen.
Together, Leighann, Kayla and Meghan are paying homage to a host of powerful historic feminist figures by repurposing and interpreting well-known (and lesser-known) recipes that have been enjoyed and prepared by famous feminist activists across the centuries. Their year-long journey will be documented on various social media channels and culminate in the publication of their book, Recipes to Take Down the Patriarchy, a full-length color cookbook chronicling famous recipes new and old, all centered around the stories, biographies and victories of history’s most audacious female feminists.